Born September 22, 1969, in Gardena, California, "Penguin" Pete Trbovich
today resides in Iowa with his wife and children. Having worked various
jobs in engineering-related fields, he has since "retired" from
corporate life to start his second career. Currently he works as a
freelance writer, graphics artist, and coder over the Internet. He
describes this work as, "I sit at home and type, and checks mysteriously
arrive in the mail."

He discovered Linux in 1998 - his first distro was Red Hat 5.0 - and has
had very little time for other operating systems since. Starting out
with his freelance business, he toyed with other blogs and websites
until finally getting his own domain penguinpetes.com started in March
of 2006, with a blog whose first post stated his motto: "If it isn't fun
for me to write, it won't be fun to read."

The webcomic Doomed to Obscurity was launched New Year's Day,
2009, as a "New Year's surprise". He has since rigorously stuck to a
posting schedule of "every odd-numbered calendar day", which allows him
to keep a steady pace without tiring. The tagline for the webcomic
states that it "gives the geek culture just what it deserves." But is it
skewering everybody but the geek culture, or lampooning geek culture
itself, or doing both by turns?